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In Boozo Veritas #5: Why I love Violence
In Boozo Veritas #5 by Teege Braune Why I Love Violence If you haven’t read Mark Pursell’s Like a Geek God blog post “Dr. Who, An Unarmed Hero,” please do. The article is an homage to “the anti-gun pacifist alien espousing diplomacy and intellectualism” Dr. Who, an odd-duck amongst geek culture heroes and a respite from… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #4: The Uncomfortable Question of Orson Scott Card
Like a Geek God #4 by Mark Pursell The Uncomfortable Question of Orson Scott Card Separating the art from the artist is a necessary element of art appreciation in any medium, but in the Information Age, it’s easier said than done. The Internet affords a heretofore never-experienced level of accessibility to one’s favorite singers, writers,… Continue reading
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Episode 64: Francesca Lia Block 2!
Episode 64 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the novelist Francesca Lia Block, whose work, whether labeled YA or not, consistently dazzles and charms me, a 42 year-old man, Plus I share Alise Hamilton’s essay… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #4: Death Wish
The Curator of Schlock #4 by Jeffrey Shuster Death Wish (Fill Your Hand) AMC had a Death Wish marathon a few weeks back. I don’t know if the movies AMC airs these days are true classics or what classic even means these days when it comes to cinema. Maybe it’s the influence a movie has over… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #3: Hell is a Studio
Loading the Canon #3 by Helena-Anne Hittel Hell is in a Studio Art gets serious once you get into the universities. That’s because this is the major you’ve chosen to pursue, and your school determined to produce artists finer than those at other schools BECAUSE UCF IS MORE ARTISTIC THAN ALL OF YOU SIMPLE PLEBES.… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #4: Worldbuilding in Megan Kelso’s Artichoke Tales
Gutter Space #4 by Leslie Salas Worldbuilding in Megan Kelso’s Artichoke Tales Worldbuilding—whether in graphic novels or prose novels—is the long and arduous task of creating and enriching social, cultural, and economic setting of a narrative. Worldbuilding is done best when it is invisible to the reader. When an author establishes a foreign setting through the… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #4: It’s a Bird!
Heroes Never Rust #4 by Sean Ironman It’s a Bird In 1938, Bugs Bunny was first shown in Porky’s Hare Hunt. The March of Dimes was created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat polio. The last reunion of the Blue and Gray commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. In a broadcast address… Continue reading
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Word from the King #1: Some Thoughts on Ben Affleck Being Cast as Batman
Word from the King #1 by John King The blogosphere instantaneously shit itself sideways when Ben Affleck was cast as the next Batman. Here are some meditations on the ensuing misplaced hysteria. 1. There are actually real problems in the world. 2. No, really. There are. Instead of bitching about who has been cast as… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #4: Why all Writers Should be Paying Attention to YA
Buzzed Books #4 by Alise Hamilton Why all Writers Should be Paying Attention to Young Adult Literature I first took note of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe during the ALA awards last winter, when it won the Pura Belpre Award, the Stonewall Book Award and was named as a Printz Honor Book.… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #4: Bacchanalia, Family Style
In Boozo Veritas #4 by Teege Braune Bacchanalia, Family Style for my own semi-feral maenad Jenn Benner “Those who look for filth can find it at the height of noon.” -Euripides, The Bacchae Our contemporary, popular notion of Dionysus as symbol of drunkenness and revelry is a sadly castrated version of the ancient Greek deity. While… Continue reading
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